On Friday the 25th May, members of the Tasmanian Division had a fascinating tour of the newly established Collection of Medical Artefacts (COMA) housed at the University of Tasmania’s residential college, Jane Franklin Hall. Dr Philip Thomson collected the medical artefacts over a period of about 25 years following a Churchill Fellowship in 1995 visiting
Vic Division have had an exciting past few months with two great events. The ‘Reflections on Richard Wolbers Workshops’ panel discussion (11th April) brought together participants from the workshops and those who had been unable to attend to talk about and share what had been learnt and how this was being put into practice. It
The AICCM Victorian Branch Committee invites applications from potential speakers for a public event entitled ‘Stories from Conservation’, to be held on the evening of Tuesday 15th May, at the Melbourne Museum Theatre. The event will be hosted by the AICCM Vic Branch, in conjunction with the Australian Heritage Festival. This event will incorporate six distinct
The Western Australia state division is steadily getting into the swing of things for 2018. The state committee has had one planning meeting and another is planned for the near future. Our first event of the year is a ‘Round table discussion of recent AICCM National Meeting and the Richard Wolbers’ Gels in Conservation Workshop
Vic Division started the year in celebratory mode with drinks to coincide with the Wolbers course being held at Museums Victoria in January. The new committee then met for a half day planning session on Saturday 17th February. We took this opportunity to further discuss what we want to work towards this year and start
New South Wales NSW Division claims it is still recovering from National Conference last year and is wondering how long this excuse will wash. In the meantime, we are in the throes of planning some events—one on what would you do if put in a difficult ethical situation, we hope this will be a fairly
In October, the Tasmanian Division held the AGM in Launceston. A new committee has been elected with David Thurrowgood as President, Stephanie McDonald, Secretary, Erica Burgess Treasurer and Nikki King Smith Public Officer. Following the meeting, we were guided through The First Tasmanians: Our Story, exhibition by the Curator Jon Addison.
We have welcomed many new up and coming conservators to the fold since the EC group began earlier this year and are excited by the new connections and possibilities that this will bring about. Those with ideas for a speaking topic or event, or professionals interested in developing early career conservators should feel free to get in
Gilded Objects Conservation SIG is currently working on preparation of the series of lectures, AICCM/GOCSIG events, which will be held in the Art Gallery of NSW this and next year. The idea is to show an application of gold or silver leaf and their imitation on different works of art. This series originated from a
Thanks to all those that completed the preventive SIG survey. The survey has highlighted many areas of interest within the preventive conservation topic. In fact it seems like the group is interested in everything! Indicating that there is a general need within our community to further our knowledge on all preventive conservation topics. I hope
